Freedom to Roam deals explicitly prohibits travel through and camping on cultivated land such as farms and gardens.

Very little of my land is "cleared". But I did build the trails. I do trim the trees and brush back. I feed the animals. The land is mine. You have no right to set one foot on it for any reason. If you want land to roam on, work and buy your own. Leave mine alone.

I oppose this measure of allemansratten in the US because private land in the countryside belongs to the owner of the property, not any Swede. Public land fulfills the purpose of accommodating anyone unable to practice camping on one's own property.

Very little of my land is "cleared". But I did build the trails. I do trim the trees and brush back. I feed the animals. The land is mine. You have no right to set one foot on it for any reason. If you want land to roam on, work and buy your own. Leave mine alone.

But I bet if I was in your area, and asked politely. You would let me set up a tent for a night or two wouldn't you?

Because I asked, not because I just decided to wander out onto your property and lay claim to a piece of it for a couple days.

That is really what it comes down to.
I just secured 93 acres to hunt on. For free.

Most of the laws we have here in Sweden are old and worked perfectly fine back when Sweden was still SWEDISH. I really like allemansrätten, if we didn't have it we wouldn't be able to go anywhere since we're completely surrounded by other people's forests and land, it's nice that we can all take part of nature and not only those who have the money to buy land.

It's also a big part of allemansrätten that you don't disturb animals, that you don't break anything and also that you don't disturb anyone else (that includes the person owning the land and others) - this has never been an issue in the past because Swedish people do NOT force themselves upon others, in fact we don't want to disturb anyone at all and don't step on anyone's toes. This is why we like to take a walk in the forests every now and then - and thanks to allemansrätten we're allowed to do that.

This is obviously a case regarding huge forests or other types of land where you usually don't meet anyone anyway, it's not like you have the right to walk into someone's garden or yard and put up a tent. Obviously...

Those who haven't been brought up among Swedes (or Scandinavians over all) have no idea what I'm talking about, to you it seems crazy(!!11one) that we have this law - but to us it's the most natural and best thing there is. Sweden was actually Swedish not that long ago and many of us know what it's like to live in completely white societies - I think many Americans might have a problem imagining what it's actually like.

Unfortunately many of our laws don't work very well when it comes to foreigners. Swedes show respect, we keep a distance, we know how to behave, we know what is right and what is wrong - something most foreigners don't. This is where it clashes.

They will have to put up "trespassers will be prosecuted" signs with all of the third worlders moving over there just to stop the illegal dumping and if the muslims can burn the forest they will.

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A few months later, Russia’s security (FSB) chief, Aleksandr Bortnikov warned, ”al-Qaeda was complicit in recent forest fires in Europe” as part of the terrorists’ “strategy of a thousand cuts.”

Bortnikov spoke of “extremist sites [that] contained detailed instructions of waging the ‘forest jihad’ and stressed that such a method had proved itself effective as it inflicted both physical and moral damage, needed little training or investment and it was extremely hard for police to find and apprehend the arsonists.”

Since then, more fatwas advocating that “Fire is cheap, easy and effective tool for economic warfare” have been issued. They’ve included detailed instructions for constructing remote-controlled “ember bombs, and how to set fires without leaving a trace.”

In addition to the U.S., Australia has had numerous fires that could be considered as Jihad in nature. In 2009 Australia suffered one of its worst brush fires in decades. Australia had been singled out as a target for "forest jihad" by a group of Islamic extremists who were urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror. During this fire, 134 people lost their lives and thousands their homes. U.S. intelligence channels early 2009 identified a website calling on Muslims in Australia, the U.S., Europe, and Russia to "start forest fires", claiming "scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels' forests when they do the same to our lands". A website carried the information that was posted by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network.

They want the white mans world but they don't want the white man in it, they seem to think that white civilizations are products of mother nature and therefore they're entitled to them as much as we are.
It's not racism when you describe actual characteristics of a race
Thank you all who gave me a rep and this extends into the future.

Here in the US, it isn't uncommon to see signs that say "trespassers will be prosecuted" on land that is nothing more than wilderness.

I see it as a result of the sue happy culture our nation has become. If someone trespasses on a property with such a sign, and then gets injured... they can't sue the land owner. With no sign up, they can sue.